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Ryanair launches pro-Lisbon treaty campaign

Irish cut-price airline Ryanair has said it will spend half a million euros on a campaign backing the Lisbon Treaty ahead of Ireland’s second referendum on the document.
The company’s chief executive, Michael O’Leary, announced his firm will get involved because he does not trust “incompetent” politicians to win the argument alone.
In total, the company will spend €500,000 on a publicity campaign, with €200,000 going to newspaper and internet adverts and €300,000 on “deeply discounted seats” intended to highlight Brussels’ positive role in reducing air fares.
Ryanair is not the first major corporation to launch a Yes campaign. Last week, the Irish division of computer chipmaker Intel announced that it will also battle to save the treaty.

Climate protesters pitch camp in London

Climate change protesters are gathering in London to call for an overhaul of the world economy to help to save the planet.
They are hoping to raise awareness of their cause ahead of international climate change talks in Denmark in December.
What makes this protest different is that the demonstrators are being moved by organisers around the British capital by text.
The demonstration is expected to be the first large scale protest since the G20 demo earlier this year.
Organisers say they expect hundreds of people to take part in a so-called “climate camp” at a secret location.
But at the moment they are playing a cat and mouse game with police.

Microsoft in web photo racism row

Software giant Microsoft has apologised for editing a photo to change a black man’s head to that of a white man.
The picture, showing employees sitting around a desk, appeared unaltered on the firm’s US website.
But on the website of its Polish business unit the black man’s head was replaced with a white face, although the colour of his hands was unchanged.
Microsoft said it had pulled the image and would be investigating who made the changes. It apologised for the gaffe.
The altered image, which also featured an Asian man and a white woman, was quickly circulated online.

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